ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Theodore Glenn Williams, who raped and killed two girls in the 1960s, will have to pay for his own lawyer if he wants one to seek release from a psychiatric center, a judge ruled on Thursday, June 12.

Williams said he is indigent, and sought court-appointed counsel.

Allegan County Circuit Judge Kevin Cronin said that Williams has the ability to pay for an attorney by selling a small house in the Upper Peninsula. The property, in Trenary, is worth about $60,000, though Williams said he has been unable to sell it at $55,000.

Williams, 75, who has been held in the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti under the defunct criminal-sexual psychopath act, says he is cured and should be released from custody. Under the law, he can petition the court for release every year.